Click here to read “How to better understand your style of humor” by Edward Hoffman, PH.D. from The Japan Times on September 4, 2012.
Have you had a good laugh lately? Anything funny happen to you this week? And, what types of jokes makes you chuckle the most? Such questions are increasingly the focus of scientific research — for evidence is now piling up that our sense of humor directly affects our well-being.
Click here to read “Putting the Plan into Action: How China’s Leaders Steer a Massive Nation” by Sandra Schulz from Der Spiegel on August 31, 2012.
There is no question that China is an authoritarian state. But Beijing’s efforts to include experts and experiments in the way it governs also help to keep power in check. Once the government supports a project, it normally carries it out — sometimes on a massive scale. Are there lessons to be taken from the Communist Party’s method of governance?
Click here to read “The battle over homework” by Kenneth Barish from the Oxford University Press’ blog on August 28, 2012.
For this back-to-school season, I would like to offer some advice about one of the most frequent problems presented to me in over 30 years of clinical practice: battles over homework.
Re-Form: Can Psychoanalysis Take It?
A continuing dialogue by Richard Gottlieb.
Dr. Gottlieb sparks us to think with Dr. Makari about the fundamentals of our profession, our dedication to inner life and how to teach this discipline. Gottlieb also asks us to attend closely to our language so that we are clear with ourselves and others what we mean. This respectfully critical dialogue advances thinking in a professional community. Continue reading Re-Form: Can Psychoanalysis Take It?
Click here to read: Who Is Philip Roth’s Portnoy Satirizing? by Bernard Avishai from The Daily Beast on August 28, 2012.
Philip Roth’s Alex Portnoy is the satirist par excellence. He’s awfully clever, making us laugh out loud. But who is Portnoy mocking exactly? The bourgeois family? Psychoanalysis? Himself? Bernard Avishai, author of Promiscuous: ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness, talks to Roth himself to come up with the real object of Portnoy’s critique of America.
Click here to read “Deluded Individualism” by Firmin Debrabander from The New York Times on August 18, 2012.
There is a curious passage early in Freud’s “Ego and the Id” where he remarks that the id behaves “as if” it were unconscious. The phrase is puzzling, but the meaning is clear: the id is the secret driver of our desires, the desires that animate our conscious life, but the ego does not recognize it as such.
Click here to read: Before Gunfire, Hints of ‘Bad News’ by Erica Goode, Serge F. Kovaleski, Jack Healy and Dan Frosch from The New York Times on August 26, 2012.
The text message, sent to another graduate student in early July, was cryptic and worrisome. Had she heard of “dysphoric mania,” James Eagan Holmes wanted to know?
